How to never forget to reply to emails

In this article I am going to show you how I implement the InboxZero rule using Thunderbird and Trello.

Recently, I was involved in organizing an event and was getting a lot of emails about that. I was a big fan of using automated email labels to organize my inbox, but the system failed on me once, and this was an important email close to a deadline. Making it short — we missed the deadline and I realized my system was not good enough.

Taking a break and searching the web for some inspiration on how to better organize my inbox, I came across the InboxZero idea. The idea, as always, is simple: anything that is in your inbox is unfinished and needs an action. An action could be a response, a forward or also a note that you should take. That also means that anything that is done should not stay in your inbox, but be rather moved to a folder or be archived.

As always, an idea stays just an idea until you put things to work. So let’s just implement this thing and give it a try.

From now on, whenever you get a new email, you have those options:

How are you managing your inbox?

I would love to know what plugins you use for your inbox and how your workflow looks like. Are you using a different email software? Let me know by leaving a comment.

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